Church helps premiere film about Holocaust heroes

11:54 PM,
Apr. 5, 2013

Loading Photo Galleries ...

Written by

A new documentary about a couple who risked their lives to help refugees escape Europe during World War II is scheduled to be shown Sunday at First Unitarian Universalist Church in Springfield.

The film, "Two Who Dared: The Sharps' War," is being shown in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day on Monday.

The film tells the story of Waitstill Sharp, minister of the Unitarian church in Wellesley, Mass., and his wife, Martha. The two accepted an assignment in 1939 - after 17 other ministers refused it - to secretly transport refugees safely out of Europe. ...